Hebden Capital is a world class group of early-stage investors with exceptional professional skills and unrivalled industry experience.

Our approach

Hebden Capital is a world class group of early-stage investors with exceptional professional skills and unrivalled industry experience. Hebden Capital comprises over 200 years of combined professional experience from leading specialists in the fields of business consulting, corporate law and strategic marketing. United by a passion for working with dynamic teams to grow business value, Hebden Capital brings expertise and insight gained across every major market and industry sector.

Our value proposition

Hands-on guidance and support from a team of uniquely experienced leaders, to help propel your business.

  • Access to a significant global network of high value contacts across numerous service specialisms and industry sectors.

  • Early-stage seed capital.

  • A dedicated relationship lead.

  • Ongoing and active day to day involvement.

  • Sector exclusivity - we won’t support your competition.

 

Principal expertise

Hebden Capital’s principals have transformed multiple businesses at all stages of their organisational growth, addressing strategy, operations, product development, risk and governance, commercial sales and marketing, finance, tax, IT and business systems.

 

Investment philosophy

Hebden Capital looks for the following characteristics in potential investments:

  • High calibre founders and management teams.

  • A clearly articulated, unaddressed market opportunity.

  • Significant barriers to entry.

  • Aggressive and sustainable market growth and value appreciation.

Meet our team

 

John Allert

John is an award-winning marketer and brand strategist, formerly Group Board Member and Chief Marketing Officer at McLaren for 13 years and CEO at Interbrand for nine years.

Marcus Boyle

Marcus was an Arthur Andersen and Deloitte Consulting Partner. He was the Global Chief Strategy Officer for one of the Global Business Units, sat on the Global Executive and was a Member Firm Board Director. He specialises in strategic & operational reviews, performance improvement and restructuring. He is a qualified accountant.

Mike Dobby

Mike is a former Vice Chairman and Senior Consulting Partner at Deloitte. He spent many years on the UK Consulting Executive responsible for the CFO Services practice. He specialises in the technology, telecommunications and media sectors. He is a qualified accountant and MBA. Post Deloitte, Mike is now Chairman of a small engineering company, and is actively raising private equity to fund its growth.

 

Peter Moller

Peter is a former Arthur Andersen and Deloitte Consulting Partner. During this time, he held roles including Global Head of Finance Transformation, Arthur Andersen and European Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing Leader, Deloitte.

Paul Robinson

Paul was a Partner at Deloitte for 24 years where he held several senior leadership roles including UK CEO Consulting, Global Technology Leader and UK COO. He also served on the UK Board. His advisory and implementation experience covers Cloud technology, Cyber, Analytics, M&A and Business Operations.

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David Sproul

David was a partner with Deloitte for over 30 years most recently spending 8 years leading the U.K. and much of Europe and 2 years as Global Deputy CEO. He has broad financial and leadership experience across business sectors.

 

David Taylor

David recently retired from international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, after 37 years, including a period as Managing Partner of the UK tax group.

 
 

Recent investments

 

Skoot Ride.com Limited (‘Skoot’)

Founded in 2020, Skoot is an innovative lift and errands app, connecting friends who drive, with friends who need a lift. Skoot is the first and only carbon negative lift and errand app.

Quix Analytics Limited

Founded in 2020, Quix Analytics’ end-to-end platform enables data professionals to stream time-series data and harness the power of machine learning and AI without investing time and resources in complex infrastructure.

 

Nuggets

Nuggets is a decentralised, self-sovereign ID and payments platform. It stores personal and payment data with blockchain, so it never has to be shared with anyone. Not even Nuggets. That liberates companies from their biggest headache: data security. If you’re not storing data, it can’t be breached.

SomaServe

To build a uniquely positioned pharma service and in partnership with Abcam, specialist laboratory reagents business which exploits the proprietary PolyNaut® technology (a ‘bionic’ nanoparticle polymer vesicle)